Overview
Kamran Mirrafati is a partner and litigation lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. His practice covers a wide range of labor and employment law with a particular focus on management-side labor relations.
Kamran’s practice incorporates a strong traditional labor background, and he has garnered favorable decisions in numerous instances. He has successfully defended clients in Section 301 cases, representation proceedings, unfair labor practice charges, and labor arbitrations, pertaining to both contract interpretation and discipline matters. Kamran also counsels employers on many labor issues such as union strikes or picketing activities, facility closures, and contract administration.
Kamran’s employment law experience further includes litigation involving wage and hour issues, wrongful discharge, unfair competition, employment discrimination/retaliation, and breach of contract. He also regularly counsels employers in a variety of human resources issues, including wage and hour compliance, employment agreements, leaves of absence, and personnel practices and policies. Kamran also regularly advises corporations on the labor and employment aspects surrounding mergers and acquisitions.
Kamran represents clients across a diverse gamut of industries, which includes oil and gas, communications, hospitality, retail, health care, finance, manufacturing, and education.
Representative Experience
- Represented various clients in numerous labor arbitrations involving employee discipline, successfully upholding over 50 suspensions and/or terminations
- Represented communications company in a contract interpretation arbitration involving millions of dollars of holiday pay, obtaining a dismissal of the grievance
- Represented communications company in a contract interpretation arbitration involving the subcontracting of hundreds of bargaining unit employees, obtaining a dismissal of the grievance
- Represented various clients in numerous unfair labor practice charges on a wide range of issues, obtaining dismissals/withdrawals in over 75 charges
- Represented a telecommunications company in a wrongful retaliatory discharge action, obtaining a favorable summary judgment
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in pregnancy discrimination action, obtaining a favorable summary judgment
- Represented a staffing company in a sex discrimination action, obtaining a favorable judgment
- Represented a pharmaceutical company against four wage and hour class actions, obtaining summary judgment and dismissals
- Represented a restaurant chain against a class certification of 45,000 employees, preemptively defeating the wage and hour action
Before entering law school, Kamran founded Vitanegen, Inc., an elective surgery financing company. He also has prior experience working as an accountant for three separate corporations.
Thought Leadership
Kamran frequently writes and speaks about labor and employment issues. He has contributed to a number of blogs; authored Chapter 33 of California Labor Law Digest, entitled “Labor Relations In Private Employment,” (California Chamber of Commerce 2014); and authored Chapter 6 of Advising Employers and Employees entitled, “Vacations and Medical Leave, and Other Time Off,” (Continuing Education of the Bar, 2012).
Recognition
Kamran was selected for inclusion in the Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars (2013–2016) and the Northern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars (2015) lists.
Publications
- Co-author, “Tackling Depositions in Wage and Hour Misclassification Suits,” LexisNexis Practice Advisor, featured in Law360 (May 10, 2018)
Education
Kamran earned his law degree with a corporate law specialty from the UCLA School of Law (J.D., 2004), where he was the editor of the UCLA Law Review. He completed his undergraduate degree in microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics at UCLA (B.S., 2001).
Kamran served as a legal extern to the Honorable Robert Alberts, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.
Admissions
Kamran is admitted to the California State Bar.
Languages
Kamran is conversant in Farsi and basic Spanish.